ZNU Press Centre News

On March 21, a round table conference was held at the Faculty of Journalism with the participation of American photojournalist Brendan Hoffman. The event was held in the framework of the opening of the photo exhibition “Brotherland: war in Ukraine” in ZNU. Honorary guest of ZNU, American journalist and scholar of the U.S. Fulbright program Rene Hickman joined the event to discuss current social issues, the image of Ukraine in the world, standards of journalism, etc.

The participants of the international project DESTIN (Erasmus + KA2) from ZNU went through another stage in the implementation of the project. On March 5, a meeting was held with students and professors of the Faculty of Journalism of ZNU owing to the initiative of the representatives of the working group.

Recently, a team of Zaporizhzhia National University has made a week-long working visit to the UK, where participated in a conference of a three-year project on the Erasmus+ KA2 DESTIN program at the Bath Spa University.

On February 8-9, the second module of trainings for journalists and bloggers was held in the journalism department of Zaporizhzhia National University together with the public organization “Union of Young Independent Journalists”. The event was held in the framework of the Bureau of Analytical Investigative Journalism, operating in ZNU with the support of the US Embassy in Ukraine.

At the end of last week, graduates of the Faculty of Journalism were awarded diplomas. 

This year 53 masters received diplomas. Now the Faculty of Journalism is expanding the range of specialties, and its graduates will be able to work not only editors and journalists, advertisers and bloggers, but also experts in the field of politics and management, archival, librarianship, etc. Therefore, the current masters who wish to continue their studies have been invited to master a new specialty - “Information, library and archival business (Information activities in business, politics and public administration)” or to enter the graduate school of ZNU.

Representatives of Zaporizhzhia National University are now in the University of Bath Spa (Bath, UK), where from 30 January to 6 February 2019 the founding conference of the Erasmus+ project (direction KA2) "Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine: Developing Standards, Integrity and Professionalism DESTIN” takes place.

On January 25, the training “Information and Communication Competence of the Teacher of the Ukrainian Language and Literature” was held in ZNU. The event was organized on the basis of the Faculty of Journalism of ZNU with the assistance of the Press, Education and Culture Department of the US Embassy in Ukraine and the South Center for Media Literacy.

Last year was very fruitful for the Faculty of Journalism of ZNU as two powerful journalistic projects of Zaporizhzhia National University with the support of the US Embassy in Ukraine, started in 2018 and will continue in the new 2019. The first is the annual cycle of weekly “Unconditional” radio programs devoted to topics and people who are poorly represented in the mainstream media. The second is the Bureau of analytical and investigative journalism”, which is working to create high-quality media texts on conflict-sensitive topics.

A number of webinars are continuing on the Faculty of Journalism of Zaporizhzhia National University, which are held in conjunction with the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication of the University of Utah (USA).

The representative of the working group from ZNU Associate Professor Katerina Sirinyok-Dolgaryova noted that an official title of the project is Journalism Education for Democracy in Ukraine: Developing Standards, Integrity and Professionalism. The total amount of the grant for the consortium (10 Ukrainian universities and 3 European ones in partnership with the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, and 4 EU NGOs and 2 Ukrainian NGOs including the Ukrainian Students' Association) is almost 800 thousand euros (798,470 - approved budget). The project implementation period is November 15, 2018-November 15, 2021.